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I am working on developing a lossless compression algorithm using MATLAB.

I would like to see some of my compressed images on windows photo viewer. Could anyone direct me on how to go about doing this? Where may I find specifications to create a codec that would work with windows photo viewer?

I am guessing that I could create a codec as a .ddl file and place it in some windows directory and Photo Viewer could decode my file format. I have seen some softwares from Nikon imaging that, once installed, allowed photo viewer to display the .NEF (Nikon's RAW) files.

I am also willing to consider developing the codec for picasa.

Lord Loh.
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  • possible duplicate of [Extending the list of supported image formats in GDI+](http://stackoverflow.com/q/455018/50447) – Rowland Shaw Mar 18 '12 at 17:37

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I think I discovered what I was looking for - It is called Windows Imaging Component. The MSDN docs appear to be here and an example of an implemented coded is webP.

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